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FCI official alive, still in ULFA custody

Sushanta Talukdar

Guwahati: In a dramatic turn of events, the Assam police on Friday said the abducted Food Corporation of India (FCI) official P.C. Ram was still alive and the body recovered at Anandpur in Baksa district on June 30 was not his.

Reacting to media reports about the recovery of the body, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) said that the official was in its custody. Inspector-General of Police (Special Branch) Khagen Sharma told The Hindu that the famil y now got evidence of his being alive. The sources said Dr. Ram spoke to his family members over telephone.

On Tuesday, a caller identifying himself as Hira Sarania, commander of the ULFA’s 709 Battalion, called up a section of local newspapers here to claim that Dr. Ram was in the outfit’s custody. But, he would not be released until ULFA leaders Pallab Saikia and Mrinal Hazarika were released, Sarania was quoted as saying.

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